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On a 9-8 vote, the House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday night reported out HB3 (Grossman-Hottinger), legislation to repeal the estate tax beginning Jan. 1, 2013 -- to get through this current bienniumRep. Ron Amstutz (R-Wooster), chair of the House Finance and...
JCARR Delays Building Codes
The Board of Building Standards agreed at Monday's Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (JCARR) meeting to re-file building code regulations to allow more time for review. Rep. Ross McGregor (R-Springfield), the committee chairman, said builders wanted more time to...
AIA Ohio Member Honored with Young Architects Award
AIA Ohio's own Jack Baumann, AIA, has received the prestigious Young Architects Award by AIA National. The Young Architects Award is given to individuals who have shown exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession in an early stage of...
Ohio Construction Measure Improves 1.4% in Fourth Quarter
Associated Builders and Contractors reported Feb. 16 that its Construction Backlog Indicator (CBI) for the fourth quarter of 2010 averaged 7.1 months, up from seven months in the third quarter of the prior year, reflecting an improvement of 1.4 percent. The trade...
Senate Begins Hearing Bill Public Employee Unions Oppose
In a Statehouse room packed with union opponents of a bill that would re-write and possibly eliminate Ohio's 27 year-old public employee collective bargaining law, State Senator Shannon Jones (R) Springboro, outlined why she was championing SB 5. “Simply put, I am...
Bill Allowing Compensatory Time Off Heard (HB61)
The Ohio House Economic Small Business Committee took testimony Feb. 10 on HB 61 which would give private employers the option to offer and employees the option to accrue and use compensatory time off in lieu of monetary overtime compensation. Support for the...
Economic Developers Seek Executive Order On Prevailing Wage
Local economic development specialists want Gov. Kasich to officially reverse a Strickland-era policy that required developers pay union-scale wages on projects benefiting from public funding. During a presentation to the Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development...
Licking County uses savings to cut building-project fees
Ohio New construction and remodeling projects in Licking County just got cheaper and officials cite the county's move to an on-demand building-code department.The county created its own building-code office last year after Newark abolished its department, which had...
Lane Beougher, AIA, Named Interim State Architect
Lane Beougher, AIA, Named Interim State Architect Lane Beougher, AIA has been named Interim State Architect. Lane has been the Program Services Manager in the State Architect's Office since 2005 and is a past president of AIA Columbus.
Surety Bond litigation: OSU Pilot Project
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, the Ohio Supreme Court granted an “alternative writ” of mandamus, accepting the American Subcontractors Association and the Surety Association case against The Ohio State University, for failing to require a surety bond on the Pilot...